Wuxia, meaning ‘martial heroes’, is a genre of Chinese fiction the revolves around adventures set in ancient times. Capitalized by the film industry, you’re likely familiar with the style even if you haven’t seen one of the many titles that were most prevalent during the 80s and 90s. The Bride with White Hair gave me […]
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Kirk Douglas tried his hand at directing in the mid-1970s, first with the jovial adventure-western Peg Leg, Musket & Sabre (1973). Following its poor reception, he made a second attempt, this time with the grittier revisionist-western, Posse, that’s returned to DVD in Australia through Shock Entertainment under the label’s ‘Hollywood Gold Series’. Howard Nightingale (Kirk
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Needless to say, Winston Churchill has been immortalised on both film and television numerous times, often receiving a mixed response from historians and the general movie-going public. Although, the legend or myth of Churchill served Gary Oldman well in winning his overdue Oscar for Darkest Hour. 45 years’ prior, the British leader’s formative years were
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Many of us probably look at seagulls as a mild annoyance when at the beach; begging for chips or any scrap of food that might fall their way. We don’t normally ponder our own existence or the meaning of life while gazing at the seaside birds, but the film, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, takes audiences on
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Armed with an all-American smile, actor Robert Redford has stared in some of the most iconic and genre-defining films of the 20th century and this 10-DVD collection from Shock Entertainment provides a nice retrospective of the actor’s career, spanning 1966 to 2001, and is the perfect gift this Christmas. I’ve seen seven out the ten
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I latched onto Jeepers Creepers from the get-go, purchasing myself a copy literally the day after I watched it. If memory serves, the film didn’t make a lot of waves upon its release, but with DVD entering its boom period it quickly found an audience along with many under-the-radar titles from around that time. Now
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With the majority of available titles now sold out, Imprint Films have gained a solid foothold in Australia’s physical media market since the label’s launch back in COVID-dominate May. One release that’s still beckoning to collectors is The Day of the Locust, an unpolished gem that remains a very polarising interpretation of 1930s Hollywood and
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With my home state of Victoria now COVID-free, at least for the time being, I returned to my local cinema after a five-month break to see the appropriately festive holiday ‘dramedy’, Happiest Season. Intended for digital distribution in the United States, for obvious reasons, the hulu original film has made it to numerous big screens
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Maximum Overdrive was the first and last film Stephen King directed, but his contribution to cinema did not end there. He later penned the screenplay for Sleepwalkers, the first of its kind not based on any of his pre-existing material, but one that still contains the all the quirks and lunacy of the acclaimed author.
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Umbrella Entertainment has added to their modest library of ‘Universal Classics’ with The Invisible Man Returns, out now on DVD; the first of four sequels in The Invisible Man film series. Vincent Price stars as the titular lead, Geoffrey Radcliffe, who’s been falsely accused of murder, but narrowly escapes the hangman’s noose when injected with
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